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Wahaha LOL. That's great man, really fun vid!! Sorry for the slow response I made a youtube-walkabout-vid, here it is: And I also have a question: What is the correct set-up of the drive chain and sprockets? I noticed that I have a 37 teeth in the back, but I think 39 would be standard? I read somewhere that the final drive changed through the years but I can't find it anymore yesterday I took the Grasshopper for a 100km spin. It was a blast. It is so much more fun to ride this great twin instead of my previous big fat strong nakeds

Thanx Drewpy. And this summer I'll make a vid of the bike&me in action. Lots of speed and noise, the XS runs like the wind, the rider with his Bell helmet, old black leather jacket and googles, lookin nasty with flies in his teeth. I'll give Spielberg a call

Finished (alltough caferacers are never finished ) the wire-wheel conversion today. I'm thrilled with the result. Before drinking my victory-beer I polished a xs400 special points cover to a mirror finish. It was a good day for the Grasshopper and Me

Did a Haynes search and found two photo's who explain it. Seems that Yamaha made a somewhat rough shaped hole. The dent I thought I made is also supposed to be there and it makes the oil that is traveling towards the oilseal drip down. New oilseal goes into place, problem solved. happy newyear

bigger pic:

I was wondering if the metal "strip" pointed out in red is supposed to stay in place or not. It's a thin piece of metal and at one place I dented it in with a screwdriver trying to remove the oilseal

Thanx mate

HoHoHo! Anyone here who made a picture of the clutch-push-rod-hole with the oilseal removed. My seal came out a bit traumatic and I can't determine wether there's a little "edge" of the seal still in place or that that edge is supposed to be there. cheers!

Picked up my wheels today. The "spokes-man" did an amazing job. Rims are polished This weekend I'll have the tyres swapped. And then.....wait for the sun

Sweet ride, I like it too!!

hi preston, My haynes manual says for the XS400 BS34 Mikuni: 32.0 +/- 1mm (1.26+/-0.04 inch). Hope this helps!

Thanx! the company that is going to do the wheels make there own spokes. They use a special semi stainless steel metal. So the spokes will not rust and there's less risk of breaking compared to fully stainless steel.

yesterday I finished the fork renovation. The old rusty stansions are replaced by a set of nos's. New oilseals, forkoil etc. Maybe in the future I'll replace the springs by some progressive ones. Has anyone experiece with them? The forkboots are SR500 types from Kedo.com Although I was very carefull I scrathed my headlamp housing. I was curious how the (new) headlight of my SR500 would look, so I put it in place to see. It will never leave there In my opinion it looks realy good and it gives a lot more Lux I'm not too worried about the extra power the bulb asks, because I have a LED taillight and this new headlamp hasn't got a small 5 Watt bulb in it. And here's a small impression of the current wire-wheel situation. The hubs look as new after a treadment with glasspearls, the rear hub has new bearings, front bearings were OK. The rims are aloy highshoulder ("hoogschouder" we call them in Holland). If you can't see the spokes your monitorsettings are wrong

Goodmorning, I've used thread lock (blue loctite) so the bolt will stay there. I losened the allen bolts at the bottem (they were not that tight) so now I have the fork lowers apart. I'll try the heat trick

Think you're right.... Found a pair of those rims you have on your XS400. So I cut all the spokes, the hubs wil be sanden in a few days and then I bring the whole bunch to the Wheel Wire Guy Today I removed the kickstart assembly and put a nice little aloy cover in it. Pictures will speak for itself And I was in the mood so I started the replace my forkseals and stansions. Here's the patient in the OR what's the best way to remove those 30 year old rusty oilseals??

Thanx for sorting that out. Funny thing is that on the cast wheel it appears not to be a separat item. Can't find a part number on cmsnl.com For the wire wheel they're about €21 p piece. €84 per4, €100,- incl shipping I think mines are fine. (and the gearbox shifts like butter) Someone on the Dutch forum would like my rims to be gold Excels. Would that look nice??

Ehmmm, Santa? About those dampers, is it advised to replace them? And how will they come off? Looks like it is melted in the holes by a very precise japanese rubber melter. can you post a piccie?

Ladies and Gentlemen..... We got 'm Happy Hornix Happy Hornix Happy Hornix @Drewpy: does the rear rim look familiar? It appears to be rather wide to me.

Right now I have a 110/80/18 in the back. My other projectbike (sr500) has the same rimsize but Yamaha put a much bigger tyre on it: 120/90/18. Looks like a fat black sausage I think this tyre is to bige for the XS400, right now I have only 1cm space between tyre and chain. Between brackets......is it tire or tyre?? Don't know what I'm going to do. The front rim/tire size will be standard otherwise my custom fender will not fit any longer. In the back maybe I'll put a wider one when the current tyre is worn. One thing is fur sure: the bike always handle the best with the standard sizes an bigger tyres are heavier http://www.motor-forum.nl/forum/list_message/17569884#17569884

Indeed, I can no longer use the kickstart. In a few weeks I'm going to completely remove the kickstart assembly and put a nice alu coverup in the hole

tell me about it Drewpy what size do you have? without hitting the chain...

Nice work Drewps @ jack crank: Thanx for the compliments I bought the seat here: http://www.rocket-caferacerparts.nl/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=64&category_id=10&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=6&lang=nl It's a Ducati Imola seat. Also available here: The rearsets are made bij the famous mr Raask in Sweden. Costed me about €200 but it's plug&play. I did this because I wanted to keep the rear diskbreak/ master cilinder. For my next project (SR500) I will buy standard tarozzi rearsets and figure the whole set up out myself. The tire is standard size. First I thought about getting a bigger one, but it's such a small rim. Wider tires on a small rim will make that the tire is mucht too round. It will result in awfull big chicken-strips Also the standard sizes give the best performance. I use Bridgestone BT45 and these are the #1 tires for our oldies. The electrics were not the biggest challange. I did some electronics at school years ago. The only issues ware a broken oilpressure switch and I mounted the 12v lead of one of the contact-breaker points against the casing, se I had no spark at one cilinder. The major chance I took was to sandblast the whole engine wile in one peace. I had to carefully close every opening in the engine block, otherwise the sand (actually glass pearls) would wreck the block in a few miles. And, not to scare you, the carbs.... I almost lost myself in the jetting. Learned that those CV carbs are crazy things once you change something about the setup. I was at a point that I thought about losing the airpods and going back to standard, but now I've found the setup I want. In a few days a big wish will come true: I found a set op XS250 spoke hubs so by the end of this winter, my grasshopper will have nice wire wheels. Me happy!!! In the beginning I bought this XS400 to have something to do. I was done modifying my Kawa ZRX1100. But the building gave me so much fun that I instantly sold my Kawa (and saved my drivinglicense ) and now the XS is my new fun bike. Costs me about 3 euro's insurance/month and it's free of roadtax. It gives a lot of fun at legal speeds and when I go for a ride with my open Bell helmet and googles and park the grasshopper at a motorshop, there are always about 5 leather Ninja's standing around it asking questions about the building etc. Keep us posted about the tracker!!

so many explanations..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dutch

Thát's great guys. In the future I can post in Dutch since you all can read it

Do you use a different Ebay??? Please let me know if another set of hubs crosses you path